Exam 16: Measurement and Statistical Methods

A significance level of .05 means that the odds that the results of an experiment are due to chance are ________.

A pattern of dots indicating scores on two different characteristics is called a ________.

On a(n) ________ scale, data are ranked from first to last according to some criterion, and the distance between points on the scale are not specified.

The difference between the highest and the lowest measurements is the ________.

The median for the set of scores 12, 28, 33, 45, 67, 67, 98 is ________.

A store owner wishes to determine which shoe size he should stock in the greatest quantity. She would be most interested in the ________ of her customers' shoe sizes.

A scale that is simply a set of categories for classifying objects is a(n) ________ scale.

The point that divides a set of numbers in half is the ________.

The sum of all the scores in a group divided by the number of scores is a measure called ________.

Each of the following is true of an interval scale except that it ________.

If you know that the mean is greater than the median, you can predict that the ________.

The normal curve is ________.

Which of the following is not a measure of central tendency?

A student ranking various graduate schools on a 5-point scale is using a(n) ________ scale.

About 99 percent of scores fall between ________ standard deviation(s) above and below the mean in a normal distribution.

If we take a large enough number of measurements of almost any characteristic, the result is most likely to be ________.

The scores gather at one end of a ________ distribution.

A line graph showing a frequency distribution is called a ________.

Measurements of age use a(n) ________ scale.

A moderate correlation coefficient is indicated by the correlations in the range ________.